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PSA: Do Not Pin League of Legends to the Dock

Public Service Announcement:
Do NOT pin League of Legends to your dock. The game will fail to launch after any patch to the launcher.

Repeat After Me:
I will not pin LoL on the Dock
I will not pin it on my sock
I will not pin the old LoL Launcher
Of this I could not be any stauncher
I will not pin the LoL Client
Heaven forbid I pin the game-game
that would just be lame-lame
If I wish to be compliant
For if I do my LoL will break
Because my shortcut will be a fake

This bug also happens on Windows but we find that very few players run into it there. However, I've noticed Mac users tend to pin things to their dock more often. If you run into problems launching the game after patching make sure you are not running from the app pinned in the dock.

Unfortunately, fixing this bug requires deceptively large amount of work. However, it is on our backlog. I apologize for any inconvenience .

Cheers!

NOTE:
There is only one proper way to pin League of Legends to the dock. To do this open your applications folder. Drag the "League of Legends.app" bundle you see there onto your dock. Hovering over it after your done should read "League of Legends". An unfortunate side effect of this is that you will have two "L" icons(up to 5 if you have 10.6.8) in your dock when the game is running.

NOTE:
There is only one proper way to pin League of Legends to the dock. To do this open your applications folder. Drag the "League of Legends.app" bundle you see there onto your dock. Hovering over it after your done should read "League of Legends". An unfortunate side effect of this is that you will have two "L" icons in your dock when the game is running.

The two "L" icons thing is incorrect. I actually have not two, not three, but SIX "L" icons on the dock when I'm in game.

1. The "League of Legends" that I click to launch from the dock.
2. The "UserKernel" icon
3. The "LoL Launcher" - Both this and the UserKernel appear on launch and don't go away.
4. The "LolClient"
5. The "League of Legends" icon that appears when I get into a game.

The two "L" icons thing is incorrect. I actually have not two, not three, but SIX "L" icons on the dock when I'm in game.

1. The "League of Legends" that I click to launch from the dock.
2. The "UserKernel" icon
3. The "LoL Launcher" - Both this and the UserKernel appear on launch and don't go away.
4. The "LolClient"
5. The "League of Legends" icon that appears when I get into a game.

...Number 6 is the PBE, so that doesn't really count, but still...

I forgot about that. It's a specific issue where 10.6.8 prevents us from hiding a dock icon once we created it.

Is it safe to keep the game-game in the Dock? I haven't experienced any problems with it, and it's faster than clicking Reconnect, especially because the orange Reconnect button fails to appear on the Mac PvP.net Client like 70% of the time after a DC/crash.

[FONT="Arial Black"][SIZE="4"]Public Service Announcement:[/SIZE][/FONT]
Do [COLOR="Red"]NOT[/COLOR] pin League of Legends to your dock. The game will fail to launch after any patch to the launcher.

Repeat After Me:
I will not pin LoL on the Dock
I will not pin it on my sock
I will not pin the old LoL Launcher
Of this I could not be any stauncher
I will not pin the LoL Client
If I wish to be compliant
For if I do my LoL will break
Because my shortcut will be a fake

This bug also happens on Windows but we find that very few players run into it there. However, I've noticed Mac users tend to pin things to their dock more often. If you run into problems launching the game after patching make sure you are not running from the app pinned in the dock.

Unfortunately, fixing this bug requires deceptively large amount of work. However, it is on our backlog. I apologize for any inconvenience .

Cheers!

NOTE:
There is only one proper way to pin League of Legends to the dock. To do this open your applications folder. Drag the "League of Legends.app" bundle you see there onto your dock. Hovering over it after your done should read "League of Legends". An unfortunate side effect of this is that you will have two "L" icons(up to 5 if you have 10.6.8) in your dock when the game is running.